What explains the slow colonization of Alta California?
a. The dangers and the cost of traveling to California from Mexico.
b. The cultural predisposition to prefer urban life to that in the hinterlands.
c. Widespread ignorance and misinformation about the conditions in California.
d. All of the above played a role.
d
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A) True B) False
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A) development of clear standards. B) maintaining a graduation rate of 75 percent. C) testing of all students from third to eighth grades. D) using test results to determine a closing of the "achievement gap."
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A) creating a centralized bureaucracy B) causing Timbuktu, Jenne-jenno, and Walata to become centers of Islamic scholarship C) building a professional army D) patrolling the Niger River. E) all of the above
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